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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
Chickens ArtificialIy Raised.

''For my part don't see why DR.. Ed
son selves all the bob veal and leaves all
the spring chickens" said veal dealer
who had Just lost a mornings profit
through the visit of lynx-eyed inspec-
tor
why do you class the two togetherT'
inquired the reporter
Because one is just as immature as the
other, and if young veal is unfit for food
so are young chickens. Take for instance
the eggs Matched by incubators Any
poultry expert will tell you that the flesh
Of the artificially Matched chicken is as
insipid as a SNOWFALL, and yet people are
willing to pay So a pair for them. The
incubator folly is, however, less preva-
lent than it was a few years ago, and
fewer people are ruined. 1t is fair to say
that each year, for the past ten years,
81, 900, 600 have been lost by persons who
believed that there was fortune in hatch
ing eggs with the aid of kerosene oil.
Ten years ago gentleman of this
city bought a farm up the Hudson and
spared no expense in attempting to make
it success of artificial chicken raising.
He sunk $50, 600 in the enterprise and
gave it upas afailure. Lastyear a promi-
iniatuated Win Inc InCrf1ir0r Gfazs- SOM
his snug home in Harlem, bought place
out near Paterson, N. j., and with his
family started to hatch chickens with the
aid of an incubator The incubator cost
5000. He spent $25 in kerosene oil, s22
in eggs, and Matched out two dozen chick
ems. Seventeen of them died with the
pip. His family became disguised and
left him on the farm with the incubator,
the pig and COW. Hecouldn't milk the
COW nor cook meal, and when he wrote
to the incubator people asking them to
take the machine back they offered him
SIS for it. An old hen, aided by nature
and warm weather, will knock out the in
cubatnr in short order, and besides the
chickens will live and have some flavor to
them. Mem York San.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
Where Immigrants Come From.

Superintendent Jackson of Castle
Garden, was asked by reporter for the
New York Commercial Adcertiser con-
corning the prospects of immigration for
the coming season. He said:
Il expect the number will about equal
that of last year-about 800, 000n
''Where do most Of them come from?"
"From Germany. England also sends
a good many. In fact, we have them
from all parts of the world. Very few
immigrants come to this port from
France"
''What do they expect to do in this
country77
"The Germans are mostly farmers, and
go West rs soon rs they can. There are
a good many artisans among the English.
English-speaking immigrants are in de.
mand as farm laborers The Irish make
the best farmers Italians and Swedes
will do anything, and are mostly put to
work on the railroads, doing all the
heavy work The Irish won't do that kind
Of work. They have an advantage in
in being able to speak the language, and
expect something better than digging
dirt, ETC.
'fwhat time of year do most of them
arrivel'
There are two seasons of the year
which they seem to prefer, spring and
autumn. May is the heaviest month
and October is next
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
PITH AND POINT.

The best thing on record is the deed Of
4 corner lot.-Plek.
Warfare-Corned beef and hard tack.
Merchant Irdreier.
Boss has named his dog wellington,
because of the animals proficiency in
rendiug bone apart.-BostoA Transcript.
The mar who would pick another mans
pocket would write an anonymous cont
munication to newspaper.-Lo'sea Cit'-
zen.
IL the Alps: Guide-'lf the ladies
viii only stop talking your honor may
hear the roaring of the waterfall across
the valley. Fliegende Bldetter.
1t is said that during the recent Garth
quake in Nice the beds in the hotels
there, for the first time in many years,
received thorough shaking up.
The baby sucks its dexter finger,
East and West and North and South;
And so the thought must with US linger,
The.baby lives from hand 10 mouth,
In ancient times kissing a pretty girl
was cure for the toothache. 1T is
difficult to improve upon some of those
old-time remedies" sagely remarks the
Norristown Herald.
Manners: In the dining-roo of re-
spectacle society it Is not considered
correct to put your fingers into the plate
before you. But at churcll, into the plate
that is set before you, all Ue expected to
put their alms-Pi,Heh.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
The Dog and the Earthoaakc.

A private letter from Naples to Lon
don correspondent contains the follow
ing IF you like dogs you will be
pleased with the annexed: At Ceriano a
poor fellow who lived by hawking milk
was buried under the ruins of his cottage
a little way out of the town. As he usu.
ally set of on his rounds before 4 A. NJ.
every one believed that he was safe, but
he too, had celebrated the end of the
carnival by taking little wine, and had
slept late. His large dog, which used to
drag the milk cart up themountain roads,
smelt out his master, and began to scratch
away the rubbish until he had his masters
head bare, which was covered with
wounds Then the dog began to lick the
wounds; but finding that the bleeding
continued, and comprehending that he
could not dig further, he ran of and
seized by the coat the first individual he
met, who, thinking the dog was mad.
got loose and ran away But a Second
person, guessing what the animal want
ed, followed him, and consequently the
poor milkman was released from his dan
gerons position. The Minister Genala
paid him visit, and found him with his
head bound up under a tent, with the
faithful dog lying beside him.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
Sour Cranes.

A field hand one day found in his trap
a nice plump rabbit lie took him out
alive, held him under his arm, patted
hun, and began to speculate on his quail
"Oh, how fat berry fat! the latest 1
eber did see. Let me see how I'll cook
him; | broil HIM No, he so fat he lose
all de grease. fry him. All, yes, he
so berry fat he fry himself. How fat he
be! No, l won't fry him, l stew him ~
The thought of the savory stew made
the negro forget himself; and. in spread
ing out the feast in his imagination, his
arms relaxed, when suddenly oil hoped
the rabbit, and, squatting at goodly
distance away, he eyed his late owner
with cool composure.
The negro knew, Of course, that there
was an end of the stew; and, therefore,
summoning up all his philosophy, he thus
addressed the rabbit, as he shook his fist
at him: ''You long cared, white-whis-
kered rascal, you not so berry fat, after
all Youths Companion.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
Specializing for Charity.

The everyday life of men like jay
Gould, Russell Stage and others of their
class has hundred cares growing out of
and yet not connected with their stocks
and bonds, writes a correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times. Hardly day passes
that all the great leaders are not pestered
by scores of little spectators, each anxi-
Gus to get pointer from the men who
can bring about panic in five hSErS il
they wish, and hardly a day passeS that
they do not give a dozen bits of advice.
Tell me what to do, Mr. Sage burst
out an excited intruder in that gentle
mans office recently; 'tell me what stock
to operate in for turn That's all |
ask. l can't afford to lose a cent. My
folks are in want Of the necessaries Of
life" Mr. Sage told him that it was
pretty difficult to say what TO do, but
after thinking a bit told him TO buy 100
shares of certain stock. ~ think you
will make 800 on it, he added but if
the market goes against you. III protect
the stock The man made his 300, and
next evening. when Mr.. Sage returned to
his home, Mrs. Sage showed him letter
from the wife of the man who had ap-
pealed for aid, thanking her in the
warnest terms for the conduct Of her
husband.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
Various Kinds OF Eyes.

Emerson has well spoken of the eye
that threatens like a leveled riie-how
often is it seen! You need not visit camps
to find it; the counting room and the
office contain it quite as often, and
sometimes it is seen even under crimps.
But the threatening eye is not to be con-
founded with the commanding eye or the
wild beast eve. The last mentioned, the
most savage and inhuman of all, is seen
chiefly under the brows flushed or pale
from debauchcry, and, according to cir
cumstances, it has restless or fixed
glare. Then there is the cruel and treach-
erous eye. This is peculiar and rather
less common. 1t lisa cold gray-different
from the intellectual gray''-with dark
edge to the eyelid There is none more
thoroughly repellent. Sometimes a
yellowish cat-like eye looks at you
saying: "Tll deceive you at every oppor-
tunity.n Other kinds arc the secretive
eye, set so far back that you can not see
the expression, the foxy, the critical, the
loving, the sensual, &c. The list is long,
but of all the most common is the non
committal eye. So frequent is 1t that the
eye is greatly overrated as general index
Of character; we really form our Judgment
from the rest of the features. When you
have well mustered the different kinds Of
eyes, then try to account for their differ
ences on anatomical principles. The com
ponents of an eyes expression are GER
tainly not numerous. There are the color,
degree Of openness, movement steady OF
vacillating, &c. Can these material
5ienivnrs alone account for the wonder
full transparency YOU sometimes meeti
There are eyes which seem actually open
windows, in which the invisible spirit
sits and becomes visible to the'earthly
sense Of sight.-lHind and Nature
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
Raisins Firs and nates.


From Malaga come those tsmpting
boxes adorned with filigrce and gi paper,
with colored medallions, dark el'ed ser
vitors and courtiers with exaggerated
pork pie hats. Why we should GILL these
raisins muscatels nobody seems t, know,
perhaps from the Muscat grape that the
MOors may have brought into Spain from
their African home But they were
known 10 our forefathers as ''raysons of
the SUM- And these ''raysons of the
sun. people credited with kind of re
Cooperative force. Always they formed
part of the equipage of last illness
The neat little table spread by The pa
TENTS bedside with saffron water and the
dish of ..raysons of the sun, with the
old family Bible reserved for such solemn
occasions, reminded the sufferer that he
or she had done with the ordinary fare of
mortal life. sun dried, indeed, should
these Taisins be, and yet not so much
dried as distilled; the watery parts driven
off, and all the richer qualities OF the
grape developed in natures alemblc-
The best of these raisins are dried upon
the-vile. When the bunch is ripe the
stem is twisted, or partly severed, and
then the fierce sun does the rest. Com
moner raisins are gathered and hung up
on strings in the sunshine, and, as they
dry, are scalded or dipped into I've, a
process which brings the saceharine par
ticles to the surface, when the fruit as
sumes its well-known slightly candied
appearance. The r;lisins without stones,
called snltanas, are from Smyrna, which,
otherwise, is more concerned with figs.
AL around the Mediterranean coast the
fig tree grows and fiourfshes; evee in
England il is often found in old-fash-
toned gardens, in shrubby form, trained
against the wall, and Worthing boasts of
fig gardens of unknown antiquity, where
the fruit natures and ripens. But the
figs of the Levant bear the highest repu-
tation, and here the greatest care and
skill are employed in growing and
harvesting the crop.
From figs to dates the transition is not
violent, for the fig tree and the date palm
may be found in the same landscape; but
the date-palm will grow on the sandiest
barren, If only there be moisture below,
to which its deeply-set roots can pene-
trate. Egypt is the favored country of
the date, and it is said that more than
two millions and half of palms are there
registered as fruit-bearing trees, and as a
single tree will sometimes bear as much
as four hundredweight of dates-quoted
last year at fifty shillings in London, but
this year, from over-abundant supplies,
not worth half-it may be seen what an
important matter TO the Egyptian fellah
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
Fecding Captire Monkers.

The monkeys in New York store fol
the sale of wild animals are served with
four courses of food twice day. This
first course, SAYS the Sun, consists of q
small frying pan full of diluted milk.
One monkey, with blue side whiskers,
buried his nose in the milk, and then
carefully wiped his muzzle on board.
A rich-brown South American puma, in
a cage above that of the monkeys, had
been served a small frying pan full Of
cooked beef The handle Of the frying
pan projected from between the bars of
the cage. The monkey saw an oppor-
tuni.y to secure an unaccustomed morsel,
and he climbed up the iron bars between
him and liberty and grabbed the handle.
The puma growled snarling protest, and
put his big paw on the frying pan. The
monkey was not dismayed, however, but
kept on rolling the pan until the meat
had been shifted down near the handle
of the frying pan. Then he dropped the
handle, and, seizing piece of the beef,
began to devour it.
When the big, solemn, 125-pound
baboon had his share of milk and water,
and the thirst of thirty other monkeys
had been assuaged, the second course,
consisting of stale bread, was passed
around. The monkeys did not take so
kindly to the bread, and ate it only after
biting off the crust. But the onions,
served raw, were heartily relished. So
fond, indeed, was the e-whiskered
citizen from an African jungle of this Jer-
sey tid-bit that he ate his own share and
then pulled his mate out of a corner by
the ear, soundly cuffed her ears, and ap-
propriated her portion of the fragrant
vegetable.
The fourth and last course consisted of
dried corn, which was rained in upon
the monkeys like hail stones. The ami
mails showed their taste in disposing of
the corn. They seemed suffused with
sense of repletion, and they cracked the
torn kernels of corn with the leisure of
gentlemen picking their after-dinner nuts
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27

have attended the Mardi Gras festivi-
ties for the last thirty years, said New
Orleans man To St Louis Globe reporter,
but | never remember to have been so
amused as a dozen years ago, when
went TO the ball in company with Gen
eral Of the QuaTtermaster's Department.
The General was a man Of fine figure and
imposing bearing, and would have been
very handsome except for the fact that
his countenance was decorated by a nose
enormous in size, dubious in shape, and
a deep purple in hue. While at the ball
the gallant officer fell in with a masked
lady of most graceful figure and car
rage, with whom he danced a number OF
times, and finally requested, as a most
particular favor, to unmask. After a
great deal of hesitation, the lady consent
cd, exhibiting to the Generals delighted
gaze features as pleasing as her figure.
After a few compliments had been paid
her, the lady said: ''But, sir. you should
also unmask - Madam said the Gen
eral, Il am unmasked.n His companion
gazed at him with incredulity, but final
" it began too dawn upon her that the rubi-
cund and trunk-like proboscis attached
to her escorts face was a work of nature
and not of art With a shudder and a
little shrek, she glided away, leaving the
General nearly mad with rage and indig-
-,......-..,- --,;H s=at- made his Way to his
hotel, and never AGAIN Was seen ii 1vew
Orleans.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
He Could Sing.

Several years ago on one OF our north
ern bays, when, as yet, steamers were in
frequent visitors, certain small boat
used to ply, touching at various points,
according as its freight or the weather
demanded.
The crew was somewhat limited, con-
sisting of the captain, the first mate,
whose name was Barnabas, and the cook,
John, who, when stress of work required,
also acted as second mate.
John was an excellent cook and fair
~ good sailor, but he was afflicted with
an impediment in his speech which made
him somewhat backward in expressing
himself, and was especially annoying, if,
for any reason, he became excited. At
such times the more he wanted to say
something the less he was able to say it.
Fortunately, however, he could sing as
straight as any one.
One day the Captain was below taking
nap, while Barnabas and John were run
ming the boat. A sudden squat hap
pened to come up, and puff of wind
brought the boom around with such I'M
expected violence as to knock the unwary
Barnabas overheard. Thereupon John
flushed into the cabin in the widest cx-
citement to inform the Captain of what
had occurred, but, as usual, he was una
bic to get out n coherent sentence.
"B-b-b-b-"h he suffered, until the
Captain, in a rage, shouted;
''Thunderation man, sing it, if you
can't say it, - and John, catching at the
happy suggestion, sang;
"Overboard is Barnabas,
Half a mile astern of us"
The boat was Immediately put about
and the luckless Barnabas recovered
Detroit Free Press.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
phenomenal Musical PrecOeity.

Not long ago the first prize at the
Paris Conservatory of Music was won by
n Girl named Renie. who is ten years
old. and was so small that the pedals of
tbe piano had to be raised in order that
she might be able to reach them. Juliette
Bone is the name of an eight-year old
artist who has won the first piano prize in
a competition at Namur, Belgium. In
several German cities Joseph Hoffman, of
Warsaw, has given a very successful
series of concerts; he is nine years old
and has performed several strong comPo-
sitions Of his own in his concerts. Henry
yarteau, of Rheims, not yet eleven years
old, has been making brilliant concert
tour along the Rhine The Hagei sisters
have given concerts in the German cities
of Bamberg, Erfurth and Nordfausen.
The youngest of these sisters, SIX years
old, plays the violin; the second, seven
wears old is a performer Of talent on Tie
cello; and the Oldest, eight years old,
PLAYS the piano Boston Trarser'pt,
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27

Pare and core whole as many apples
as desired and place them in an ordi-
nary bake pan. Fill the place from which
the core was removed with white sugar
and pour around the apples sufficient
water to keep them from sticking to the
pan. Bake until well cooked, but be care
full not TO allow them TO fall or mash
For dressing take two or three teaspoon
fuls of corn starch and butter the srze of
an English walnut, and sugar to taste.
Mix with half pint of water, flavo,ing it
with vanilla, and cook long enough to
thoroughly cook the corn starch Now
lift the apples on dish and pour the
dressing over them, and serve in small
dessert dishes l find that this dish is
very palatable also with cream and sugar.
To remove the cores from the apples a
two or three prong fork answers nicely
in the ABSENCE of ''core cutter-"-Ars.
Il. @. Graft.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
A Royal Gift.

Chinamaniacs and Anglomaniacs will
alike be interested in the Manchester
England Guardians statement, on the
authority of a private Vienna CORE
spondent, that a magnificent dinner SER
vice of the Dresden bright-yellow ware,
used only for royal presents, is being
made there by order Of the Emperor VIII
lam for presentation TO the Queen on the
occasion of her jubilee. Each plate will
have five medallions, having on them
either allegorical pictures recalling memo
nble incidents in the Victorian era or por-
traits of celebrities of the Queens reign.
There are to be in all 2SS large and 100
small plates. beside tureens, sauce boats
and fruit dishes. The centrepiece for
flowers and fruit will be surmounted by
u statuette of the queen, and have me
dallion portraits in relief-white on gold
of members of the royal family of
England. Troy Time.
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--EE-ft-- = II ~ Et1ANC-
Lset rearF henrt that s1rror Ills
WA sauleosTrhel1ning woe.
f.c1l. ari.h his ssn uannnibenod lis,
IN taar tiint a-irrs s0a.
Ehilf aaine-s cumt-rs day By day,
And 4eary hours grow long.
hrrti BOP. shall Light The cloudrd way.
Tbrr sunzr and sros strong
Ee. Etrong in suffering. strong in hope
hiEu.lE ifaris ily olnseieBoe led,
tiaiur eleTg bitter an can cue
That raars A. ririols had.
briEit Eerllis y iisie surround each heart
Ille lginsli4ne and DE- d-E,
Eesanii1zs y afiiietioals sinert;
Tleu sllffsr a1d l. true,
Ia fise red t'arfle-siaid q lie.
II turisaieEoe aud din.
r. every ss,-Ee Al huiusn STRIFE,
Iem1rziion sirnoE. sin-
1haf bring cllill laiior 10 tlie face.
Idai nlars domestic light,
Ard suiptilurs every tender graos-
stin suiisa' aud b. night.
he-iif-i b. suffering eserahelm'd
Hith tline and otlcrs' CARES,
hesrae, b. brave, bearlned and behind.
6ainsf current Niies znd snares;
t,rsai IL ti.y strcneit, heroicprids
lan eEeTr ~ endure,
Thas'sh n ieaTtatioa doui'iy frisi;
Isen szrer and b. pure
-ehaaeiy bottle. "A Iafeo-oooaH.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-05-27
The Song OF the Grocer.

20 teas me not the maiden cried,
''Such things do despice,
/ wish you really would be ware,
And from your knees would rice
~ cannot help this coffee said,
For you have chilled me through,
Though you to me have given the sack,
No fairer -four e'er grew
This soap has slipped away from me,
That can call you mine;
But if the barrel be removed,
Please drop to me line.
I'D scale the highest grade for you,
Or grind my way so fine;
Whatever else gets mixed, you'll see
My heart will round you Irvine.
81 shall not strive you to appease,
Though this is butter blow,
! ST must think what might have been
Ha, u not said me no"
Omaha Bee.
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Through the Year With the Poets and
Paragrsphists.

L..
Our resolutions good we plan
To take effect the first of Jan.
IL
But ahi how sorely do they ebb
Before we reach the first of Feb
III.
And as a rule they busted are
Before we reach the first Of Mar.
His door bell will be decked with crape
Who shifts his underwear in Ap.
No prudent msn will put away
His gums or liver pad till May.
VI
All outdoor billing meath the moon
May safely be postponed till June
VII.
On iIl-thatched heads the agile fly
Gets in his work about July.
VII.
Wild runs the hydrophobic dog
In bree1eless, sticky day of Aug.
TX
And parties bitten take the step
OF going to Pasteur in Sep.
Returning tourists on the dock
Evade their custom dues in DC.
Tax dodgers from Nahant may move
In safety back to town by Nov.
Enrol
Now tired muse your spasIns cease,
Since you've arrived alive at Dec.
Boston Courier,